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We encourage you to support your colleagues by sharing details of your latest publications with them via this newsletter. Submission details are at the bottom of this newsletter.

Congratulations

A warm, belated congratulations to fellow member Yamini Narayanan, from Deakin University, on Australian Research Council (ARC) grant success:

Narayanan, Y., Wolch, J., Barua, M. Animals and urban planning: Indian cities as Zoöpolises, ARC Discovery (2018-2021), ARC Discovery grant

This project casts animals as vital components of urban societies in India. India’s rapid urbanisation and biodiversity decline together have critical global implications, but the complex social dimensions of Indian urban biodiversity are overlooked in current planning. Via archival and empirical methods in six ecologically diverse, rapidly growing, medium-sized cities, the project will examine the everyday realities of selected wild, commensal, and commoditised species who live close to humans. It will show how these realities are also social, to offer an empirical basis for planning to sustain urban biodiversity, and devise species-inclusive zoöpolises as successful cities of the future.

Nexus

Doctoral completions

Have you completed a PhD, professional doctorate or similar degree in recent months? If so, we would like to publish details in Nexus. Please complete this form and forward to the editors at nexus@tasa.org.au for inclusion in the March issue of Nexus. Congratulations!

Employment Opportunities

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Human Services

A full-time, continuing, position is available at The University of Canterbury, New Zealand in the School of Language, Social and Political Sciences, College of Arts. They are looking for a focussed, research active academic proficient in teaching and pedagogical practice. The ability to foster collegiality by developing links with other College academic units and research centres (including our Social Work programme), is highly desirable; as is the initiative to integrate technology into teaching, and the passion to engage and encourage students. Preference may be given to applicants with a PhD in human services, public sociology, development studies, criminal justice, or a similar critical social science discipline. Application deadline: March 11. Read on...

Research Manager – Yamatji Marpla Aboriginal Corporation (YMAC) Perth

Challenging leadership role of an experienced technical team for anthropological research to support Native Title for the Pilbara, Murchison and Gascoyne regions of WA. Support legal services and Knowledge Partnerships initiatives and all related reporting, budgets, project activity and stakeholder management in line with YMAC’s strategy. Please contact Doug McKay, Executive Consultant, for a confidential discussion on 08 9323 0208 or apply via https://jobs-apac.hudson.com searching for “Research Manager” or reference “6B/17877”.

2018 TASA Awards

Stephen Crook Memorial Prize - Closes April 30. Read on...
Raewyn Connell Prize - Closes April 30. Read on...
Outstanding Service to TASA - Closes May 31. Read on...
Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology - Closes May 31. Read on...
Sociology in Action - Closes June 15. Read on...
Outstanding Contributions to Teaching in Australian Sociology - Closes June 15. Read on...
Early Career Researcher – Best Paper Prize - Closes June 30. Read on...

For details, please go to the Social Sciences Week website.

Members' Publications

Books

McLeod, Julie, Sobe, Noah, & Seddon, Terri (2018). Uneven Space-Times of Education: Historical sociologies of concepts, methods and practices, 2018 World Yearbook of Education, London, Routledge

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series considers changing space-times of education by asking how they become unevenly textured as our worlds globalise, horizons shift and familiar points of reference melt and are remade. Acknowledging the reach of economic and cultural change, digital communication, geopolitics and persistent inequalities, the chapters trace processes that are re-making education and societies. Examining the depth of their impact on practices, methods and concepts reveals the significance of knowledge-building and socially embedded forms of reasoning in emerging patterns of educational governance, pedagogic and policy reforms as well as in lived understandings of self and social worlds.

Read on...

Journal - Articles

Ben Gook, “Ecstatic Melancholic: Ambivalence, Electronic Music and Social Change around the Fall of the Berlin Wall,” Emotions: History, Culture, Society 1.2 (2017), 11-37.

Narayanan, Yamini. 2018. ‘Cow protection’ as ‘casteised speciesism’: sacralisation, commercialisation and politicisation. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 41(3). 10.1080/00856401.2018.1419794. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZtvN2kha8MsuT7az3k4J/full

Narayanan, Yamini. 2018. Cow Protectionism and Bovine Frozen Semen Farms in India: Analysing Cruelty, Speciesism and Climate Change. Society and Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies. 26 (1), 1-21. http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685306-12341481

Alston, M, Clarke, J and Whittenbury, K (2018) ‘Limits to Adaptation: reducing irrigation water in the Murray-Darling Basin dairy communities’ Journal of Rural Studies, Vol 58, pp. 93-102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.12.026.

Blogs

Janine Pickering: Award-winning Swinburne thesis explores gender in STEM management

Members' Keynote Invitations

Have you been invited to give a keynote? If so, we'd love to hear about it so that we can list the details in the weekly newsletter here.

Fellow member Helen Forbes-Mewett is giving a keynote at the International Student Safety & Security (i3S) Conference, March 16 - 17, Beijing, China, Achieving a positive and safe experience while studying abroad

Promotions

Have you been promoted recently? If so, we'd love to hear about it so that we can share the details in the weekly newsletter here.

Thematic Group Events

The next thematic group funding submission deadline is March 1st, 2018. If you have an idea for an event, we encourage you to share details with your fellow members/group conveners. More details about the funding round will follow soon.

Other Events, News & Opportunities

Research Participants Needed

Paul Kleynjan, from Western Sydney University, is seeking research participants between the age of 18 - 25 for his dissertation on 'Male Activists and Feminism'. Read on...

Migration Program 2018-19 Discussion Paper

The Department of Home Affairs has released a discussion paper, Managing Australia’s Migrant Intake, as part of the consultation process for planning the 2018-19 Migration Program. The paper is available here. This consultation process presents an opportunity to shape Australia's Migration Program over the medium to long term so that migrants are positive contributors to Australia's economy, values and society.

You are invited to consider making a submission in response to the paper. Submissions are due by close of business TOMORROW Friday 2 February via email to migration.policy@homeaffairs.gov.au.

Call for Papers - Journals

Popular Music and Society invites article proposals for a special issue on Regional and Rural Popular Music Scenes. Guest-edited by Andy Bennett, David Cashman, and Natalie Lewandowski Proposals due by June 30. Read on...

Journal for the Academic Study of Religion invites contributions to a Special issue Religion at the Royal Commission. Abstract submission deadline: March 1. Read on...

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, New University of Lisbon (CICS.NOVA). This Call for Papers is continuously open and papers should be sent to forum@fcsh.unl.pt. Read on...

Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South
Call for Proposals The series provides an opportunity to illustrate the work of emerging and established scholars who are challenging traditional paradigms in the fields of crime and justice. Read on...

Consumer Vulnerability: Advancing a multidisciplinary perspective of vulnerability The Editors are looking for interdisciplinary perspective on consumer vulnerability. Submission deadline: 12 February. Read on...

Call for Book Proposals

Social Theory and Methodology in Education Research Read on...

Call for Themed Issues

Journal of Applied Social Theory Call for Themed Issues Submission deadline: April 30. Read on...

Workshops

TQ2U is an international touring version of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology’s (IIQM) globally acclaimed ‘Thinking Qualitatively’ (“TQ”) workshop series. February 17 - 18, Canberra. Read on...

Symposiums

Australian Mothering in Contemporary and Historical Perspective 15-16 February, The University of Melbourne. Read on...

Conferences

New: Interconnections, social transformation and global mobility: a way towards the future 14th Asia Pacific Sociological Association (APSA) 5 - 7 October, Hakone, Japan Submission deadline: March 31. Read on...

Health and Illness in the Neoliberal Era RN16 - Sociology of Health and Illness 18 - 20 April, University of Turin, Italy. Read on...

Power & Governance: Forms, Dynamics, Consequences Tampere, Finland, 27–29 August 2018 Submission deadline: March 30. Read on...

Caring of People in a Pluralistic Way: Towards an Interdisciplinary Management of Persons with Mental Disorders Morocco, 7 - 9 May Submission deadline: April 25. Read on...

4S 2018 Conference: Call for Papers, Closed Panels, Making and Doing Presentations, and STS Across Borders Exhibits Sydney, Australia, 29 August to 1 September 2018 Submissions close: TODAY Feb 1. Read on...

Gift Memberships

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